Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalization: Alternative Union Models in the New World Order(Hardback)

Synopsis

This is an edited collection of items on unionism worldwide, recognising the crisis that an informatised and globalised capitalism implies for work, workers and the trade-union movement. It considers radical alternatives for labour organisation and action in the 21st century. The book includes contributions by informed academics and unionists and proposes alternative union policies or models in relation to the working class(es), to women, democracy, ecology, internationalism.

LAURIE ADKIN Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada
GLENN ADLER Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department and a staff associate of the Sociology of Work Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg
KIRILL BUKETOV Editor-in-Chief of Rabochaya Politika (Workers Politics/Labour Policy), Russia
CHRISTOPHER CANDLAND Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Political Science Department at the University of California
ANA MARIA CATALANO Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Buenos Aires
AMRITA CHHACHHI Lecturer in Women's Studies at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
GEORGE DEMARTINO Assistant Professor of International Economics, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver
ANDRE GORZ considered a prominent post-industrial utopian
RICHARD HYMAN Member of the Industrial Relations Research Unit at the University of Warwick
THE CONFEDERATION OF JAPAN AUTOMOBILE WORKERS UNIONS (JAW) formed in 1972 and is the confederation of the enterprise-based labour unions of automobile manufacturers
ERIC LEE Member of Kibbutz Ein Dor, Israel
RENEE PITTIN Associate Professor in the Women and Development Programme, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
JOSE RICARDO RAMALHO Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
VIC THORPE General Secretary of International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM)
EDDIE WEBSTER Professor of Sociology and Director of the Sociology of Work Unit, University of the Witwatersrand

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